Heather, are you feeling any better today? I've been thinking alot about you and posted some comments under your pictures in the forum. Your feet and legs look terribly painful!!!! Is Bryan home today to help with the baby? Ugh...I can't imagine. She's so cute as well, you want to hold her every second I'm sure. When I had my babies I could barely let them down. I can't imagine the hurt in wanting to but not being able to sometimes. So sorry...it's not fair.
My girlie parts don't seem to flare with burn but I can say (discreatly) sometimes there's definatley more internal sensitivity and possibly swelling... My lower back also burns as well as the skin on my abdomen when I where certain jeans. I even tried wearing nothing but sweats for an entire week...even though I'm not really a sweats kinda gal! (But I wore them in black!) One week I went to work in sweats and slippers to see if I would feel better in my feet, legs, back and abdomen...no such luck. So since it doesnt make a bit a difference what I wear...at least I can carry on being fashionably fabulous.
(LOL J/K)
I've had alot of weird things with my bowels, bladder etc. There are days when I don't go to the bathroom at all during work! (Except for make up checks) Sometimes I wonder...is it CRPS if I don't have sensitivity to touch as much as others or sometimes not at all with burning? You've made me feel relieved that you also experience it in this way...because I'd rather know what it is than NOT know...you know????
Right now my hands are red, not nearly as red as your lower half, but definately red and swollen, neck and knees as well. I think it's mainly because this place I work for is a conservation company so they are conservative with the heat which is NOT the best for me I have found!
Keeping busy is exactly what I found that has kept me trucking!
Also, sometimes during a C-section your nerves can get irritated I would imagine. Did you get a nerve block beforehand??? You could still be healing internally from your C-section? It took me literally a few months to feel okay after my first one. They cut NEW tissue. The 2nd and 3rd C-Sections I recovered nicely because they tore the tissue and muscles (or whatever) that were already used!
Have you tried the Epsun Salt baths? Massages? They seem to help with the swelling. My muscles get really tight, like contract permenatenly until I get massaged! Then after a bath and a message from LoveMuffin, they seem to get soft and I have some release and I feel less achy and burny....
Rocker,
I think it's so nice that you and Cindy have such a thoughtful relationship. Sometimes Brian and I get so caught up with work, kids, dogs and just generally trying desperatley to find time for ourselves and one another. I forget, and he does too...that we really need one another.
I love him dearly, but sometimes I consider him to be a bit insenstive, but I think it's mostly my part because I'm not in bed whrithing in pain. When I am in such pain, he's always there for me.
During my time at home, when I'm uncomfortable but still forcing myself to take care of things, he seems to forget I can't do EVERYTHING. (Like folding laundry which really makes me ache and burn) Or stopping off at a store in January at 9:00pm on the way home after a 12 hour work to get a gallon of milk when he's been home from work since 4:00!!!! I know it's my fault for not telling him it bothers me so I've made a decision to tell him. If I can share with you my weakness, I should really be able to share with him, right?
It's hard for to say I have limitations, "I can't or won't" but I wish he'd understand enough that I'm just too proud to say I can't handle anything. I wish he'd just
know.... I ask a lot...I know.
Anyways, how are you feeling rocker???
Love you all!
